Wednesday, April 9, 2025

BMW holds firm: Builds diesel cars side by side with electric cars

At present, BMW has no plans to bury the combustion engine. Instead, the diesel and petrol cars must be built together with the electric cars.

BMW does not intend to do anything other than the difference that already exists between electric cars and diesel/petrol.

The brand's product manager Bernd Körber tells this in an interview with Autocar .

The Germans will thus keep both front-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive diesel and petrol cars, even though electric cars have arrived. And despite the fact that BMW has built the last internal combustion engine in Germany. Read more about it here .

According to Bernd Körber, BMW is not dropping the internal combustion engine because the brand wants to be adaptable.

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– The development depends on legislation and what customers are looking for.

– In the foreseeable future, we will use a technology-flexible approach, which is why we also intend to build all powertrains on the same assembly lines, says Bernd Körber.

In this way, Bernd Körber believes that BMW secures itself against both factory closures and layoffs, which, for example, Ford is doing these days.

– If the market changes direction, we do not need to close factories or reduce the number of employees. We're just switching to a different powertrain, it says.

However, it is not at all certain that BMW needs to think in such changeable directions. In any case, Pieter Nota, who sat on the brand's board of directors until last year, expects the EU to either regret or postpone the ban on the internal combustion engine in a very short time.

– A new EU Commission will, I suspect at least, decide on a postponement or adjustment of the ban no later than 2026. It's just inevitable, I think, said Nota in an interview with the Dutch podcast National Auto Show.

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